About Kathleen
Kathleen Slee is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage grief, trauma, depression, and major life changes. She brings six years of clinical experience in New Mexico and focuses on clear, down-to-earth guidance for everyday struggles. Her practice centers on body-informed work alongside talk therapy.
Somatic approaches are used to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and to restore a greater sense of calm.
Background and approach
Kathleen also uses client-centered listening to follow what matters most to each person. She draws on practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address mood, intrusive thoughts, and patterns that get in the way of daily functioning. Mindfulness practices are woven in to help with emotional regulation and grounding during hard moments.
Many people come for help with self-esteem, anxiety, and life transitions such as divorce, caregiving, or midlife shifts. She also offers support around issues tied to adoption and foster care, chronic illness and pain, and end-of-life concerns. Kathleen aims to create an accepting, nonjudgmental space where clients can name what’s happening, learn manageable skills, and make choices that fit their values.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to people both inside and outside the United States.
How Somatic and Skills-Based Approaches Work Online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how feelings show up in the body and uses gentle awareness and movement to ease tension. This approach can help when trauma, chronic pain, or strong emotions feel stuck in daily life. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's priorities so sessions address what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, offers straightforward tools to notice unhelpful thoughts and build different habits for mood and behavior.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kathleen will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what they hope to change. Together they try methods that fit the individual and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to get regular support. Video lets people practice breathing and body awareness together, while chat or text can be useful for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. The range of options gives flexibility for people juggling caregiving, work, health issues, or different time zones.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Kathleen commonly help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?
In what formats are sessions offered?
How are fees handled for sessions?
What steps are required to begin working together?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English